“The spreading services will spread in almost all of Flanders”, confirms Veva Daniels, spokeswoman for the Roads and Traffic Agency. In the Antwerp region they were already on the track around 5.45 pm, the rest will follow later in the evening.
The winter service of Roads and Traffic was started more than a month ago, but until now there was no need for spreading on the motorways and regional roads in Flanders. A stock of 108,000 tons of road salt is available.
Gritters are also leaving Brussels for the first time today, Brussels Mobility announced earlier today. They scatter preventively on the regional roads and cycle paths of the Brussels region. The road network of the Brussels region to be covered is just over 800 kilometers long.
It KMI has proclaimed code yellow for smoothness for almost all of Belgium (except for West Flanders). It will remain dry tonight, but banks of mist and fog can freeze. The minima would be around or just below freezing in the west, but they would drop to -4 degrees in the center and to -5 to even -10 degrees in the Ardennes.
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